Musings and collected bits of prose of a middle-aged genderqueer minister engaged in a personal search for truth and meaning while educating the world about relationships, love, and sexual justice.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

recipe time

Oh man.

I got a cookbook for Christmas. Greetings from Maine Recipes from the Maine Kitchen put out by the Cancer Community Center. It's a non-profit kind of thing that does good works. You can get a copy of this cookbook at http://www.cancercommunitycenter.org/. Do it. The organization is cool and the recipes are much better than you usually get from stuff with Maine twice in the title.

First recipe I try is something I am going to post because I know that Jen over at Never a Dull Moment is looking for easy gluten-free recipes and I don't know if Robin at Around The Island might not be able to use it because there is Coconut milk instead of critter milk, and I think she has dairy issues with her kids.

In any case, it is yummy and I found all the ingredients at Hannaford, a Maine-based supermarket chain, so I'm pretty sure anyone will be able to find the ingredients without too much trouble. And don't get freaked out that it calls for mussels. This would work just as easily with boneless chicken breast cut up pretty small or tofu if you are vegetarian.

Thai Mussels

Serves 6 as an appetizer or two as a meal.Prep time: 5 minutesCook time: 10-12 minutes (20 if you make rice)

Simmer 5 minutes to blend flavors. Add mussels, cover and cook until mussels open, about 5 minutes. Discard any mussels that don't open. Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle on the rest of the cilantro.

Serve with plenty of crusty fresh bread to soak up the delicious sauce. (Dawn adds: or boil up some rice noodles and serve it in bowls like a large, lumpy soup.)

It was absolutely fantastic. The butter can be switched with margarine or oil according to your tastes, the mussels can be switched for boneless chicken breast, it can be served with bread, over rice noodles or on a plate of steamed rice.

4 comments:

Actually we're okay on dairy over here. Maya doesn't eat much dairy beyond milk/yogurt/ice cream but since there's no chance in hell of her tasting anything like this it doesn't matter. In any case I do cook a lot of Thai food and coconut milk and red curry paste are staples in my pantry, so I'll definitely be trying this - but with the chicken, since I'm not a big mussels fan. Love red curry though. Yum.

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These are the ramblings of a middle-aged genderqueer Unitarian Universalist minister in perpetual formation. I write about life, politics, church, religion, spirituality (those are three separeate things), as well as sex, relationships and justice. I hold the world and myself to unreasonably high standards. You might not like that. It happens.